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The First Amendment forbids widespread loyalty purges. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty Just a few years ago, then-Senator J. D. Vance of Ohio said that if Donald Trump were reelected, he would advise the president to “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state” and “replace them with our people.”…
The attack on it is a violation of the nation’s post–Civil War rebirth. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty The attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States is an attempt to reverse history, to push our nation back, way back, before the Dred Scott decision of 1857 and the secession crisis that soon…
The comic book company that publishes the graphic novels and comics of Neil Gaiman announced this weekend that it would no longer work with him after a storm of sexual misconduct allegations and that it would halt the publication of his forthcoming “Anansi Boys” series. The company, Dark Horse Comics, wrote on X on Saturday:…
The Cruel Kids’ Table Among the young, confident, and casually cruel Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America. At the Power 30 Awards at Sax on January 19. Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux for New York Magazine It’s Monday, January 20, the first night of Donald Trump’s second presidency, and just a couple…
Scores of senior career diplomats are resigning from the State Department effective at noon on Monday after receiving instructions to do so from President-elect Donald Trump’s aides, three U.S. officials familiar with the matter said. The forced departures, aimed at establishing a decisive break from the Biden administration, will result in an exodus of decorated…
Neo-Nazis are celebrating Elon Musk making two Nazi-like salutes during a speech to tens of thousands of President Donald Trump supporters on Monday. “Elections come and go, some elections are important, some are not, but this one really mattered,” Musk said during his address inside the Capital One Arena in Washington DC, hours after Trump…
WASHINGTON – Tech billionaire Elon Musk, speaking at a Trump celebration rally at Washington’s Capital One Arena, appeared to conclude his remarks with a “Roman salute,” a fascist gesture most commonly associated with Nazi Germany, where it was performed alongside the phrase “Heil Hitler.” The gesture continues to be used among far-right groups worldwide, particularly…
Nobody is perfect. At times we have difficulty managing our finances, we don’t always take our medications as planned, and sometimes we don’t perform up to par at work. However, research shows that people experience these problems to different degrees. Across financial strata, research reveals that the financially less well-off engage in these behaviors more often…
Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there’s a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution. Neoreactionaries believe that while technology and capitalism have advanced humanity over the past couple centuries,…
Well, well, well. Three years ago, Peter Thiel called me a conspiracy theorist at a Baffler-hosted debate in New York between him and David Graeber. What prompted the characteristically winking and dismissive Thielian deflection was a question from a New York Times reporter, concerning a story on this very blog by yours truly. The story…